What If Aydinlik Did The Same Thing To Chirac?

HURRIYET- Columnist Ertugrul Ozkok comments on the Reporters Without Borders map issue. A summary of his column is as follows:
My first reaction after finding out about the Reporters Without Borders map was this:
Why are we taking these people so seriously? This is an organization made up of unemployed reporters. Since it utterly lacks professionalism, to compensate it tries to fill up this void with tendentious ideology. To make a comparison, France’s Reporters Without Borders is as ineffectual and irrelevant internationally as Turkey’s Human Rights Association (IHD) is domestically.
Was the reaction made by the Turkish Chief of General Staff really necessary, not to mention publicly airing this reaction?
My second reaction was: I’m glad that the government reacted. But then I began to think about the other side of the situation. Yesterday I called Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz and asked him why they hadn’t made a reaction more quickly. He responded like so: ‘What if the Aydinlik Gazette in Turkey had done the same thing to Chirac, How would the French government have reacted?’ That’s why I say that even if the government didn’t take the issue seriously, I think it’s good for the military to speak up and do something.

SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS AND INFORMATION